Comparison

Home Contents vs iData Mobile Plus

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Home Contents

Easily create a detailed inventory of your home's contents for insurance purposes. Document items with photos, receipts, and purchase details to ensure you're adequately covered in case of a disaster. The app offers robust reporting and data management features.

Highlights
  • Quick camera entry mode
  • Add photos, receipts, and details
  • Track purchase date, value, serial numbers
  • Supports multiple properties and currencies
  • Customizable categories and locations
  • Generate professional PDF reports
  • Secure data with password protection
Features
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The fastest way to create a complete home inventory. Capture First. Organize Later. Home Contents’ unique Quick Capture mode lets you walk through each room taking one photo of every item. When you’re finished, complete the details whenever it's convenient by adding values, serial numbers, warranties, receipts, and notes. Home Contents helps you keep a complete record of everything you own. Whether you’re making an insurance claim after a fire, flood or burglary, moving home or planning your estate, your inventory is always close at hand. Free download includes up to 25 items and 1 property. Go Unlimited: Unlock unlimited items and multiple properties with a one-time in-app purchase. No subscription required. Features • Capture an entire room in minutes with the unique Quick Capture mode • Record purchase dates, values, serial numbers, warranties, barcodes and notes • Add multiple photos and PDF receipts to items • Organize everything by property, location and custom categories • Assign items to multiple categories for flexible organization • Built-in smart categories highlight warranties, unvalued and unfiled items • Generate professional PDF reports by location, category, value and other criteria • Create detailed reports for individual high-value items • Quickly search across every field, or simply scan a barcode • Optimized for iPad with keyboard shortcuts, trackpad support and drag & drop • Keep your inventory in sync across iPhone and iPad with iCloud • Backup, restore and export your inventory whenever you need • Protect your inventory with an optional passcode Private by design. Your inventory is stored locally on your device or in your personal iCloud storage. You stay in control of your data.

About

iData Mobile Plus

Organize and manage any type of information, from lists and inventories to random data. Create custom databases with styled text, embedded images, and photos. Secure your data with passwords and Touch ID, and sync across devices via Wi-Fi or Dropbox.

Highlights
  • Customizable datafiles
  • Record filtering and text search
  • Styled text and embedded images
  • Photo insertion from library or camera
  • Password and Touch ID protection
  • Wi-Fi and Dropbox synchronization
  • iTunes file sharing
Features
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iData Mobile Plus is a flexible, easy-to-use database application that lets you organize, manage, and keep track of any kind of information that you need to have available at all times, such as lists, inventories, and rosters, as well as sets of random information of all kinds. Create as many datafiles as you like. Each datafile can have its own structure, and as many records as you need. A record will have a Notes area, along with any fields you specified when you created the datafile. The Notes area can contain styled text and embedded images. Insert photos from your Photo Library, or use the Camera to insert a photo. Locate your data in a datafile using record filtering and/or text searches. Add a password and Touch ID to the app as an extra layer of protection for your datafiles. Synchronize to iData Pro on the Mac. You can perform most of your heavy data entry on the Mac, then synchronize over your WiFi network. Or, synchronize via Dropbox. You can also use iTunes file sharing to move datafiles between your mobile device and the Mac over USB. iData Mobile Plus includes a detailed User Guide.

Screenshots

Home Contents4 screens
iData Mobile Plus1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iData Mobile Plus at none against Home Contents's 1. iData Mobile Plus also leads on iOS requirement (15.2 vs 26.0). Home Contents's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 10) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Home Contents sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iData Mobile Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Home Contents holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home Contents has 1.5K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Home Contents's written reviews are positive against 67% of iData Mobile Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Home Contents ships an update every 2 months, iData Mobile Plus every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Home Contents versus iData Mobile Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHome ContentsiData Mobile Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better4.4 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews87.6% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.5K — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCURLYBRACE APPS LTDMichal Wright

Customer experience

Home Contents

All ratings1,461 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral3.3%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews378 reviews
Positive87.6%
Neutral7.4%
Negative5.0%

iData Mobile Plus

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Home Contents

One-time1
  • UNLOCK ALL FEATURES$5.99
None

iData Mobile Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Home Contents free?
Home Contents is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iData Mobile Plus free?
iData Mobile Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Home Contents or iData Mobile Plus?
Home Contents is rated higher. Home Contents averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while iData Mobile Plus averages 4.4 from 10 ratings.
Do Home Contents or iData Mobile Plus have ads?
Neither Home Contents nor iData Mobile Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Home Contents or iData Mobile Plus?
Home Contents ships an update every 2 months, and iData Mobile Plus every 3 months. Most recently, Home Contents was updated on October 29, 2026 and iData Mobile Plus on October 24, 2026.

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